<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><b>Topographies of ‘Turkish cinema’: Hybrids, hyphens
and borders</b></span></p>
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">International Conference<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">İzmir University of Economics, Department of Media and
Communication</span></p>
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">İzmir / Turkey</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">21-22 April 2011</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://iletisim.ieu.edu.tr/topographies">http://iletisim.ieu.edu.tr/topographies</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><b>First Circular</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Over the
past few decades the concept of national cinema has become a hotly debated
topic. The global circulation of cultures, finances, people and commodities has
come to render impossible the delegation of fixed national affiliations to
films, filmmakers and audiences. Furthermore, as a more recent development, the
way films are being produced/co-produced, distributed and consumed are now
raising new questions for, and requiring new vocabularies from film, scholars.
When we look at the literature in this area the concept of national cinema is
being contested increasingly. At the heart of these discussions we encounter
notions such as transnationalism, globalization, diaspora, migration,
post-nationalism, hybridity, exile, post-colonialism etc. Interestingly, with a
few exceptions, the literature on Turkish cinema seems to have missed, or at
best neglected, these discussions. </span></p>
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none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">The<i>
Topographies of ‘Turkish Cinema’</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
10.0pt"> conference is intended to be an intervention into these issues, aiming
to shed light on Turkey-related films, filmmakers and audiences. There are
approximately four million Turkey-related migrants living in western European
countries, and many filmmakers with links to Turkey dispersed around the world,
producing films that portray hybrid, diasporic subjectivities and experiences.
These audiences, films and filmmakers are forging new transcultural fields,
which scholars and critics of Turkish Cinema have yet to properly engage with.
The<i> Topographies of ‘Turkish Cinema’</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> conference will bring together filmmakers,
researchers and academics to initiate a discussion that probletamises the
concept of what ‘Turkish Cinema’ might be. Within this context the position of
Turkey-related filmmakers, films and audiences will be reconsidered and the
impact of its cinema on diasporic/transnational viewers will be scrutinized. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Below is a
non exhaustive list of topics and themes around which interested film scholars,
filmmakers and cinema professionals may give their presentations. The list is
intended to be a guide; we are open to papers on topics other than the ones
listed below as well. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Films and
their nationalities</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Hyphenated
identities, belongings and films</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Theorizing
the concepts of <i>nationality</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
10.0pt">, <i>transnationalism, migrant, exilic</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> and <i>diasporic</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> within the scope of Turkish cinema </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Rethinking
conventional vocabulary used for stereotyping particular films, filmmakers and
audiences (Türk asıllı/Turkish-origined, gurbetçi/expatriate etc.) – their
contestations </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Film as a
bridge/breach between host/guest cultures and societies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Migratory
filmmakers - their biographies, cinemas and films </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Non-conventional
migrants/migrations: exiles, sojourners, etc. </span></p>
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mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Films and
audiences </span></p>
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mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Short and
documentary films </span></p>
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mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Migratory
Turkish filmmaking as a transnational industry. (Distribution, co-production,
etc.) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Celebrities
and spectacles of diasporic/transnational Turkish cinema </span></p>
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mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Screening of
Turkish films abroad and their reception among audiences (theatres, premieres,
festivals) </span></p>
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none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Abstracts
of up to 400 words can be sent to <a href="mailto:gokcen.karanfil@ieu.edu.tr">gokcen.karanfil@ieu.edu.tr</a>
or <a href="mailto:serkan.savk@ieu.edu.tr">serkan.savk@ieu.edu.tr</a>. The
abstracts should include the full name, institutional affiliation (if any) and
the contact information of the author(s) along with an e-mail address. The
deadline for abstract submission is the 10<sup>th</sup> of December 2010. There
will be a registration fee of 50 Euros for those presenting a paper. The
language of the conference will be English. Each presenter will have 20 minutes
to present her/his work. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">As a
parallel project to the <i>Topographies of ‘Turkish Cinema’</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> conference, we are planning to publish an
edited collection which will include selected papers from the conference
presentations. Those who are interested in contributing to this collection with
their articles will need to send in the drafts of their full papers by the 1<sup>st</sup>
of April 2011. </span></p>
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none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><b>Important
dates</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><u>Deadline
for abstract submission</u>: 10 December 2010</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><u>Notification
of acceptance:</u> 20 December 2010</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><u>Registration
opens:</u> 15 January 2011 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><u>Deadline
for full paper drafts:</u> 1 April 2011(for those who wish to contribute to the
edited book project)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><u>Registration
ends:</u> 8 April 2011</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><u>Conference
days:</u> 21-22 April 2011</span></p>
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none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><b>Organizing
committee</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Burak Doğu </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Assist.
Prof. Dr. Ebru Uzunoğlu</span></p>
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none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Assist.
Prof. Dr. Gökçen Karanfil</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Serkan Şavk
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Prof. Dr.
Sevda Alankuş</span></p>
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none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><b>Academic
Advisory Board</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Assist. Prof.
Dr. Ahmet Gürata (Bilkent University)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Assist.
Prof. Dr. Ashley Carruthers (Australian National University)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Assist.
Prof. Dr. David J. Gramling (University of Arizona)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Assoc.
Prof. Dr. Nejat Ulusay (Ankara University)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Prof. Dr.
Nezih Erdoğan (İstanbul Bilgi University)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Prof. Dr.
Robert Cardullo (İzmir University of Economics)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">You can
reach further details regarding the conference through the website located at <a href="http://iletisim.ieu.edu.tr/topographies">http://iletisim.ieu.edu.tr/topographies</a>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Please
don’t hesitate to contact the Conference Organizing Committee through the
following e-mails should you have any questions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="mailto:serkan.savk@ieu.edu.tr">serkan.savk@ieu.edu.tr</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="mailto:gokcen.karanfil@ieu.edu.tr">gokcen.karanfil@ieu.edu.tr</a></span></p>
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